Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

Ray Charles

Album
Label Rhino Release date Format 7×CD Country 🇺🇸 United States

Tracklist 547:05

CD 1

1 The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again 2:38
2 Roll With My Baby 2:37
3 The Midnight Hour 3:02
4 Jumpin’ in the Mornin’ 2:48
5 It Should’ve Been Me 2:43
6 Losing Hand 3:14
7 Heartbreaker 2:53
8 Sinner’s Prayer 3:24
9 Mess Around 2:42
10 Funny (but I Still Love You) 3:15
11 Feelin’ Sad 2:51
12 I Wonder Who 2:50
13 Don’t You Know 2:57
14 Nobody Cares 2:40
15 Ray’s Blues 2:54
16 I Got a Break Baby 2:47
17 Blackjack 2:20
18 I’ve Got a Woman 2:54
19 Greenbacks 2:52
20 Come Back Baby 3:06
21 A Fool for You 3:03
22 This Little Girl of Mine 2:33
23 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) 2:55
24 Blues Hangover 2:19
25 Mary Ann 2:48
26 Drown in My Own Tears 3:21
27 Hallelujah I Love Her So 2:35
28 What Would I Do Without You 2:34

CD 2

1 Dawn Ray 5:03
2 The Man I Love 4:28
3 Music, Music, Music 2:56
4 Black Coffee 5:32
5 Lonely Avenue 2:34
6 I Want to Know 2:11
7 Leave My Woman Alone 2:41
8 The Ray 3:59
9 I Surrender Dear 5:06
10 Hornful Soul 5:30
11 Ain’t Misbehavin’ 5:41
12 Joy Ride 4:39
13 Sweet Sixteen Bars 4:08
14 Doodlin’ 5:53
15 There’s No You 4:47
16 Undecided 3:42
17 My Melancholy Baby 4:22
18 It’s All Right 2:17
19 Ain’t That Love 2:51

CD 3

1 Rockhouse, Parts 1 & 2 3:52
2 Get on the Right Track Baby 2:19
3 Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’bout That River) 2:17
4 That’s Enough 2:46
5 Talkin’ ’Bout You 2:49
6 What Kind of Man Are You 2:50
7 I Want a Little Girl 2:56
8 How Long Blues Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 9:17
9 Cosmic Ray Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 5:24
10 The Genius After Hours 5:24
11 Charlesville 4:56
12 Bags of Blues Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 8:53
13 Deed I Do Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 5:51
14 Blue Funk Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 8:12
15 Soul Brothers Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 9:33

CD 4

1 Bag’s Guitar Blues Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 6:28
2 Yes Indeed! 2:17
3 I Had a Dream 2:54
4 You Be My Baby 2:30
5 Tell All the World About You 2:02
6 My Bonnie 2:50
7 Soul Meeting Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 6:05
8 Hallelujah I Love Her So Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 5:31
9 Blue Genius Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 6:42
10 X‐Ray Blues Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 7:07
11 Love on My Mind Ray Charles & Milt Jackson 3:49
12 The Spirit‐Feel (live) 3:46
13 Blues Waltz (live) 6:24
14 In a Little Spanish Town (live) 3:48
15 Sherry (live) 4:26
16 (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live) 4:04
17 A Fool for You (live) 7:11

CD 5

1 I’ve Got a Woman (live) 6:19
2 Talkin’ ’Bout You (live) 4:22
3 Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River) (live) 2:09
4 Yes Indeed! (live) 2:40
5 Early in the Mornin’ 2:48
6 (Night Time Is) The Right Time 3:26
7 Carrying That Load (single version) 2:16
8 Carrying That Load (LP version) 2:24
9 Tell Me How Do You Feel 2:44
10 Fathead David “Fathead” Newman 5:23
11 Tin Tin Deo David “Fathead” Newman 5:22
12 Bill for Bennie David “Fathead” Newman 4:17
13 Hard Times David “Fathead” Newman 4:43
14 Mean to Me David “Fathead” Newman 4:16
15 Sweet Eyes David “Fathead” Newman 3:45
16 Weird Beard David “Fathead” Newman 4:49
17 Willow Weep for Me David “Fathead” Newman 4:59
18 Tell the Truth 3:06
19 What’d I Say, Parts I & II (mono LP version) 5:04

CD 6

1 What’d I Say, Parts I & II (stereo LP version) 6:30
2 Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me 3:25
3 Come Rain or Come Shine 3:42
4 Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’ 3:46
5 Just for a Thrill 3:26
6 You Won’t Let Me Go 3:22
7 Am I Blue 3:41
8 The Spirit‐Feel (live) 4:23
9 Frenesi (live) 5:04
10 Tell the Truth (live) 3:35
11 Drown in My Own Tears (live) 6:24
12 (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live) 4:05
13 What’d I Say (live) 4:25
14 Let the Good Times Roll 2:53
15 Alexander’s Ragtime Band 2:53
16 Deed I Do 2:27
17 When Your Lover Has Gone 2:51
18 Two Years of Torture 3:25
19 It Had to Be You 2:45
20 I’m Movin’ On 2:22
21 I Believe to My Soul 2:59

CD 7

1 Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:21
2 Unknown Title (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:16
3 Piano Improvisation – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:31
4 Losing Hand – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:47
5 Little Rock Getaway – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:16
6 Kentucky Waltz (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:23
7 Heartbreaker (instrumental) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:13
8 Heartbreaker – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:13
9 Piano Improvisation – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:42
10 Heartbreaker (False Starts 1 & 2) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:12
11 Losing Hand – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:20
12 Losing Hand – Dialog #3 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:27
13 Losing Hand – Dialog #4 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 4:55
14 Heartbreaker (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:53
15 It Should’ve Been Me – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:56
16 Nobody Cares (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:57
17 Piano Improvisation – Dialog #3 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:33
18 Mess Around (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:39
19 Funny (but I Still Love You) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:17
20 Sinner’s Prayer (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:44
21 Piano Improvisation – Dialog #4 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:01
22 Low Society – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:08
23 Boogie Woogie (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:56
24 Low Society – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:28
25 Worried Life Blues (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:01
26 Come Back Baby (Walter Davis version) – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:59
27 Low Society (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:56
28 (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Takes 1–7) – Dialog (recording session outtake, 1958) 8:17
29 Tell Me How Do You Feel (take 1) (recording session outtake, 1958) 3:21
30 Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 1:01
31 It Had to Be You – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 1:40
32 My Buddy – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 1:45
33 Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 0:18
34 When Your Lover Has Gone – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 1:50
35 I’m Beginning to See the Light (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 1:26
36 Let the Good Times Roll – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959) 2:46